LinkedIn Education and Certifications Entries: What’s the difference?

When you signed up with LinkedIn, you might have been asked to provide your education background. Maybe you have more than one school to list, or you even have additional qualification data. One common mistake is that many users cannot understand the difference between education entries and adding other related licenses and certifications.

   Education section refers to your academic background, such as a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, or a Doctoral degree, given by universities and other same educational level institutions. In the Add “Education” pop-up window, you can type your education information into the applicable fields as for: School, Degree, Field of study, Start and End Year (or expected), Grade, Activities and societies, and Description, while you can also upload external documents, photos, sites, videos, and other related presentations.

   On the contrary, other licenses and certifications such as when you get one for attending into conferences and seminars, or certified courses, are not able to be compared with academic degrees, thus these qualifications have a different section, called “Licenses & Certifications”, right below the Education section. In that field, you can type in your license or certification information. A menu displaying companies will appear as you type in the Issuing Organization field and be sure to select the correct authority from the menu, so their logo appears next to the certification on your profile. You can choose whether the credential expires or not, the issue and expiration date, and provide the credential ID and URL.

   Finally, courses within the context of an academic degree goes to the “Accomplishments” section, where you can also add your publications, honors and awards, language certificates, patents, projects, test scores, and more. Thus, now you know where to post your next educational step on LinkedIn.